tdoft
Well-Known Member
Brewed Biermuncher's Octoberfast about three weeks ago with no problems on brewday. Pitched S-04 and got good activity in a few hours. Unfortunately, we had a heatwave shortly thereafter and my usually realiably cool basement allowed ferment temp to get into the seventies. Kegged this last night and sample clearly was not right-apple esters bigtime. Soooooooo.....any advice going forward? Will the esters age out better at 68 degrees or 40? Or am I permanently stuck with apple cidery beer in which case any ideas of making it more appealing would be greatly appreciated. I'm thinking cinnamon/clove/dryhop/anything!!!!!??????????? BTW finishing gravity was 1.010-should have been 1.014. Thanks!!!!!!!!